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As the price of new cars, gasoline, tolls, tires and seemingly every element of driving increases, people are keeping their old cars longer and focusing more on maintaining them. It’s a trend that has helped some companies that specialize in automotive replacement parts and mechanical service.

Monro Muffler Brake, Inc., which provides automotive under-car repair and tire services, is among the beneficiaries. Rob Gross, the company’s chairman and chief executive, says the decline of what many in the industry call the disposable-car culture contributed to record sales and profit for its fiscal second quarter of 2012.